Web search from your desktop.
the operating system’s latest Insider Preview Build
. The company describes the feature as “lightweight interactive content” — the first, it says, of many such tools it’s considering adding to Windows 11 — but let’s call the thing what it really is: a widget. Not everyone signed up to the latest Windows 11 preview build will see the new search box, but anyone who does and doesn’t like it can disable the feature by right-clicking on the desktop, selecting “Show more options,” and then toggling “Show search.”
If you are running the latest preview build, you’ll also have to restart your computer to give the search box a chance to show up.Is it a useful feature? Probably for some, and probably not for others. It’s a web search rather than a system search , and could be useful if you need to quickly pull up content after starting your machine from scratch.
At any rate, it’s interesting to see the company play with desktop widgets, as opposed to corralling these tools into a separate panel (for more on that,
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